The phrase "a computer dump" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to data extraction, storage, or analysis, often referring to a complete copy of data from a computer system.
Example: "After the system crash, we performed a computer dump to recover all the lost files."
Alternatives: "data dump" or "memory dump".
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Of course you'd have to plug it into your computer, dump files onto the drive, then unplug it and set it back up next to your TV, which makes for a cumbersome process.
If you were one of the investors frantically rushing to his computer, dumping shares of every stock you owned, you probably wish that you had just waited out the market drop.
Their opinions are dumped into a computer, and the data are sifted and sorted through a statistical method called conjoint analysis, which determines what features will be most attractive to consumers.
Real estate transactions, federal data from the Internal Revenue Service, commercial license plates, traffic tickets, bids for government construction projects — all this information, newly digitized and dumped into a computer system, can help states find tax scofflaws.
The photos need to be dumped to a computer.
Especially if you've got people in your household that just want to pop a DVD in and record and those that like to dump it on a computer and edit.
Mackie, a professor of medical physics, and Reckwerdt, a computer programmer, were toying with technology dumped by GE when it exited the radiation therapy business in 1997.
As far as the camera goes, it's difficult to discern just how good the images captured by HTC's Ultrapixel sensor without dumping them onto a computer for further inspection, but early results seemed promising.
That dubious distinction went to a computer at a Midwestern mutual fund that dumped a massive amount of derivatives all at once, flooding the markets.
